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Tell Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as…
- He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is…
- Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.
- The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has…
- No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh,…
- What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,'…
- I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to…
- The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do…
- Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
- God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His…
- You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.…
- [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
- And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to…
- The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice…
- You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
- You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the…
- Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda…
- I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that…
- Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is…
- ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING…
- Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough,…
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- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden